Okazaki Atsutake

Okazaki Atsutake was a retainer of Emperor Komei of Japan and a member of the Sonno Joi movement. Atsutake, Shimazu Mitsukasu, and Minamoto Tokikuni were sent to murder an American soldier named Porter Samuels and merchant Riley Wheeldon in 1863 by Emperor Komei as a part of his Order to Expel the Barbarians, and the three of them killed the two unarmed Americans. This action provoked the Bombardment of Kagoshima shortly after.